How to be Successful in Your New Leadership Role
Reading Time: 8 minutes As a new leader in your organization, you want to do a great job and prove to the hiring team that they made a good investment in you.
The Optimal Leader: The Never Ending Desire To Improve
Reading Time: 3 minutes There is much to be said about becoming the optimal leader. Like physical fitness, it requires dedicated time to practice the skills of Mental Fitness every day. If we go to the gym 3-5 days a week and work on our physical fitness, should we go to the mental gym
At What Stage of Grief Are We?
Reading Time: 2 minutes Whether employed or unemployed – an estimated 50M Americans have filed for unemployment since the beginning of the pandemic – many of us are experiencing grief. I am reminded by my psychologist, who once told me that all change creates loss, and we need to mourn all losses. We need
What’s next – Conviction and Certainty (With Adaptability)
Reading Time: < 1 minute It may be necessary for all leaders to step back, take a breath, and ask if your leadership is measuring. Dr. Travis Bradbury, the author of “Emotional Intelligence 2.0” and “Seagull Management,” offers a brief leadership inventory that may help you assess yourself in two key areas that constitute much of
Adopt Adaptive Leadership to See the Other Side of COVID
Reading Time: 2 minutes As we move from absolute fear of losing our business to discovering that we might make it through this daunting period, we are piling up lessons about leadership that will help us get to the other side. We cannot use the same old models; what got us here today will
Your Optimal Leadership
Reading Time: 2 minutes Today, in this COVID-19, an unusual era, I want to describe a few attributes of leadership that are more important now than ever. I appreciate we all have basic intelligence so I will limit my commentary to EQ and AQ and AQ, is newer in its understanding. Of the self-management
The Corona Derby
Reading Time: < 1 minute The sporting world has been hit especially hard by COVID-19 and horse racing has been no exception with the postponement of the sport’s Triple Crown of The Kentucky Derby, the Preakness, and the Belmont Stakes. One creative soul, however, has found a way to overlay the current crisis on what
Reading Time: 2 minutes COVID-19 has knocked us off our game plan – everything we know about moving forward shattered. Although I have been through some tough times in the past, I don’t fully remember how I responded. This time I am working with a group of CEOs and senior executives, and we are
Nothing is Ever as Good or as Bad as it Seems.
Reading Time: < 1 minute “Nothing is ever as good or as bad as it seems.” Dr. Scott Galloway From his “No Mercy, No Malice” Blog Author of “The Algebra of Happiness” If you ask older Americans about the best times of their lives, many will point to a crisis of some kind that had
10,000 Hours and Now an Expert
Reading Time: 2 minutes Becoming an expert is difficult to do. Conventional wisdom, initially discovered by Anders Ericsson, says it takes 10,000 hours of study to be an authority in a particular topic. For 18 years, I taught leadership at a superb graduate school in Boston – Brandeis University, located in Waltham, Massachusetts. If
